Founded in 1997 by then Center director Harold Augenbraum, the Society's mission is to encourage the reading, study and enjoyment of the work of Marcel Proust. The Society presents lectures for the public and hosts discussion groups on his work.

Our Proust Reading group will be offered again in spring 2019.

FURTHER READING

Marcel Proust: In Pictures and DocumentsPatricia Mante-Proust, editor

Proust: The Search by Benjamin Taylor

Marcel Proust in the Lightof William James by Marilyn M. Sachs

Proust and the Visual Nathalie Aubert, editor

Proust's In Search of Lost Time: The History of a Vocation by Meindert Evers

Monsieur Proust's Library by Anka Muhlstein

Proust's Overcoat

Reviewed by Sheridan Hay

Like a character gone missing from a W.G. Sebald novel – which is to say an invention more compelling than life ever offers – an enigmatic collector is at the center of Proust’s Overcoat by Italian journalist, Lorenza Foschini. READ MORE

Beyond Elstir

Dr Stan Burnett

There is a serious connection between Proust and Cézanne and their relation to colleagues in their arts, a connection that is not just some anecdotal coincidence, but a signiﬁcant parallel... Read more

Talking to Marcel

Anne Landsman

He seemed the epitome of male prerogative and privilege: the world turning around the small movements of his hand on the page. He’d become a trope for the writer I wouldn’t be. Read more